Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2025Stanford
Zach Buckey
DE • 6'3" • 270 lbs • Bakersfield, CA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Zach Buckey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.7 disruption score.
Impact Production
41
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
28
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
53
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Stanford
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Stanford
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: California
Player Story
Zach Buckey built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive end from Bakersfield, CA wearing No. 98, spending time with Stanford. The clearest part of Zach Buckey's career was his defensive production:...
Read the storyZach Buckey, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Stanford. Zach Buckey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.7 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 26
- TFL
- 7.5
- Sacks
- 4.5
- QB hurries
- 2
- Passes defended
- 3
Quick Answers
Zach Buckey quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Stanford · DE
- Career Tackles
- 26
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 19 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Stanford
- Top game
- California
- High school pipeline
- John Hersey · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 98 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 8 tackles · DE 179th (top 64%) · ACC 401st (top 51%) · National 3,228th (top 53%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Stanford | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2022 Regular Season | Stanford | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 38.9 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Stanford | 7 | 7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 17.8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Stanford | 6 | 11 | 5.5 | 3 | - | 1 | 0 | 46.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Stanford | 5 | 8 | 1.5 | 1 | - | 1 | 0 | 35.4 |
Related Context
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Zach Buckey played DE for Stanford. Across 5 tracked seasons, Zach Buckey recorded 26 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Stanford.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Stanford paired 9.5 primary output with 19.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 13.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Virginia
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Stanford
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
0.7
Efficiency
13.7
Usage
6.5
Consistency
37.1
Best Game by takeover score
Virginia
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Hawai'i: 1. Virginia: 2. Pittsburgh: 0. North Carolina: 0.5. Notre Dame: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Hawai'i: 1 by 14.2. Virginia: 3 by 32.5. Pittsburgh: 1 by 4.2. North Carolina: 1 by 9.2. Notre Dame: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
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First Half1 · Games = 3 · +0.8 vs Second Half
Second Half0.3 · Games = 2 · -0.8 vs First Half
Game Log
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5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Virginia
Best efficiency game
32.5 vs Virginia
Player Story
Zach Buckey story
Zach Buckey built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive end from Bakersfield, CA wearing No. 98, spending time with Stanford. The clearest part of Zach Buckey's career was his defensive production: 26 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, and 3 passes defended across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Zach Buckey's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Stanford
2021-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Stanford | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2022 Regular Season | Stanford | 1 | 10 | 4.2 | 1 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Stanford | 3 | 8.5 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Stanford | 9.5 | 19.3 | 6.1 | 6.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Stanford | 3.5 | 13.7 | 6.5 | -6 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ California
Week 13 · L 21-24 · Conference game
Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.
7.5
Havoc Plays
90.3 takeover
7.5 disruption/tackle impact with 90.3 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 31 Virginia
Week 4 · L 20-48 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
77.5 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.
#3
vs Arizona
Week 4 · L 20-21 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
61.1 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.1 takeover score.
#4
vs Colgate
Week 1 · W 41-10
1
Havoc Plays
48.3 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.
#5
@ Colorado
Week 7 · W 46-43 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
46.7 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 46.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Stanford
9.5 primary output · 19.3 efficiency · 6.1 usage
46.5
#2
2022 Regular Season · Stanford
38.9
1 primary · 10 efficiency · 4.2 usage
#3
2025 Regular Season · Stanford
35.4
3.5 primary · 13.7 efficiency · 6.5 usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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